Color-study device.



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APPLICATION TILES ROV. 5,'1907.

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EMANUEL FREDERICK WAGNER, or NEW Yoan, N. Y.

COLOR-STUDY DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 8, 1908.

Applicaun iiled. November 5 1907. Serial No. 400 807. l. Y Bfhile QUEl.;

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that' l, EMANUl-:L F. WAGNER, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in thecounty and State of New York, have invented a. new and Improved Color-Study Device, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription,

This invention relates to a device for studyin colors.

llany persons who ein loy colors are deficient in their faculties ocompari-ng or har- Inonizin g colors.

The object of this invention is to provide a device adapted to be usedby such persons and by students of color, for comparing diferent colorsor placing them in dlerent arrangements, enabling contrasting colors tobe exhibited or harnionizing colors to be placed in o, position.`

A further object ofthe invention is to provide means for arranging aplurality of col ors adjacent to each other so that their artisticeffect maybe studied.

The invention eonslsts m the'const-ruction and combination of parts tobe more fully dev scribed hereinafter and particularly set forth in theclaims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specifico.n tion, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the iigures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation ofthe device, cert-am parts bein 1 brokenaway or removed; Fig. 2 is a rear e evation of a frisket whichconstitutes a feature of the invention; Fig. 3 is a front elevation ofthe complete device,l Fig. 4 is a vertical section through the device;Fig. 5 is a front elevation of another form of the device, showing anarrangement for studying different combinations of colors; a part ofthis view is broken awa Fig. 6 is a front elevation of a shield whic 1is col` ored and adapted to be used in connection with the device shownin Fig'. 5, so as to give a ground for the arranged colors; F i0. 'l' 1sa view of a reversible shield having a different color on each side, andadapted to'be used with the device shown in Fig. 5; Fig. 8 is a verticalsection on the line 8 8 of Fig. 5; and Fig. 9 is an elevation of thecolor wheel or disk, several of which are shown in Fig. 5.

roceedi e,y new, to a detailed description of 'the arts, it should bestated at the outset, that t e deviceillustrated in Figs. 1 to 4 is LA.;intended for the purpose of studying the harmony and contrast of colors;it also enabies a limited study of color arrangement or combination.

Referring more articularly tothe parts,1 represents the boi y or back ofthe device. which consists of a rectangular plate having guide flanges2, formed at the longitudine edges thereof as shown. In thisback aremounted four color scales indicated collectively by the numeral 3.' Thecolor scale 3 at the left has deep tones, while the next. scale 3" tothe right has strong tones; the scale 3d at the extreme right has fainttones, while the scale 3 just to the left of the right-hand scale hasniediuni'tones. These scales are provided on their outer faces withcolors arranged as indicated in Fig. 1. Beginning at the top, the colorsare as follows: yellow, blue, red, yellow, orange, green, purple, gray,brown olive, sage, buil' and drab. The colors, vellow, blue, redconstitute the primary colors, while the colors orange, green and urpleconstitute the secondary; the colors o ive, brown and gray are thetertiary colors, while the sage, bulll and drab are quadrant colors.This arrangement is illustrated rraphically in Fig. 1. These stripsorsca es 3 are ada ted to slide up orv down in the back 1, whichconstitutes a uide for them, as will be readily understood. lowever,they normally occupy the' fixed relation shown in Fi 1. Over these colorscales there is slidab mounted a shield 4 which shield consists of arectangular' sheet or plate having two transverse slots 5 and 6 whichextend-completely across the combined width of the scales 3 and ex osethe colors thereof to view. This shield affords means for studying thecolors of the scales in harmony or in contrast. When contrast colors areto be studied, one of the slots or openings is placed in an intermediateposition (as indicated by the dotted line 7) with respect to the colors;that is, it will be dis posed directly over the dividing line betweentwo contrasting colors. For instance, the contrasting colors blue andred may be exposed by means of the upper slot 5 so that the lowerportion of the ue is visible and the up er portion of the red, theadjacent colors eing screened. from view. In this way the artisticetiectof the colors in contrast can be studied in their various degreesof tone or strength. If harmonizing colors are to be studied, the shield4 is placed so as 'lower slot exposes the color gray. The distancebetween the slots is such and the arrangement of the colors of thescales is such, that the lrarrnonizing color for any particular color isat once found by placing one of the slots over either of the colors. Asindicated, the Width of the slots is the seine as the width of thecolors or zones of the scales.

Where it is desired tostudy the contrast-A ing or harmonizing colors asthey will a pear upon ground of any articular color, ernloy a frisket orover ay 8 shown in Fig. 2. This irisket consists simply ol' arectanvular sheet or plate, adapted to lic over the-shield 4 and havinga plu .rity of slots 9 formed therein, said slots being equal in lengthand 'width to the slots 5 and 6 aforesaid. The distance between theseslots is substantially the same as the Width of the slots, or slightlygreater, and the arrangement of the slots is such that if one ot theslots is brought into ailing-.ment with the slot 5, the slot 6 in theshield 'will then be covered by one of the bars 1li between the slots 9.In this Way by sliding the iriskel, either oi the slots 5 or t3 muy becovered, so that there will be only one band of color visible. Thisarrangement is illustluted in Fig. 4, where the upper slot 5 is coveredby cnc of the-bars 10 wal the lower slot 6 is uncovered so as to exposethe colors of the scales beneath. The slots or openings 9 are formedaround their edges `with bands 11 of different colors, thc upper onebeing black, the next'. one white, the next one bull", the next fray andthe next brown, as illustrated in i 3. ll'ith this arrangement, byslipping t e frisket up or e scale can be shown down, any colors ol' tin harmony or contrast upon a ground having any of the colors` black,white. buil', gray or brown.

As stated above. the colors vary in tone. from the lett toward thelight, the dee est tonos being' at the left. l Y rovide the ce tonedscale 3 with a doub e X which is. the symbol which I employ in the colorsystcin which l use. 'lhe strong tone of the scalo is provided with asingle X for the saine pur ose, und thc medium scale. ith a' zero, whi ethe scale at the right. is irovidcd with two zeros, which is the symb'.for the faint colors. By having the scales 3 mounted so that they can bcslipped lon'itudinally in the back 1, it becomes possible to change thehorizontal arrangement of the colors; for instance, the scale at theextreme right may bo pulled down so as to bring the faint blue innlinement with the medium orange. In this way, evidently, dillerunthorizontal conrbinations of colors may be studied with or without aground of any color which is carried by the frisket. The possibilit y ofsliding the scales as described is illustrated by the .dotted lines 12in Fi 3.

`It will be noted rom an examination oi Fig. 1, that the primary colorsdo not bcgm at the top of the scales; the first color of the scales isyellow, which is just above blue.

This yellow is identical in shade with the yellouv color of the primarygroup, but is placed at this point so as to enable the blue to hestudied in contrast with yellow.

Referring, now, to the device illustrated in Figs. 5 to 9, I provide a1^late or sheet 1110i rectangular form, provi ed with a central opening14 and openings 15, 16, 17 and 18 near the four edgesor sides of theplate. The

central opening 14 has substantially" the,

form of a Greek cross having taperinU arms. Between the openings 14 and15 a eolicr disk 19 is attached upon a -pivot '20. Between 'the openings16 and 14 a similar color disk 21 is pivoted; likewise, on each side ofthe eentral opening, l provide smaller color disks 22 and 23 which arepivoted as shown. The arrangement is suc-n that the edges of the colordisks all poss under the opening 14. The disks nrc provided with radiallines 24, as illustrated in Fig. 9, which divide the colors into equalspaces of segmental form; thc arrangement of thecolors is that shown.being arranged in rotation in the same order as .in the scales shown inFig. 1. T he pivots 2t) at .Jhirh the disks are attached, have the formof a snap button or any similar 'well known device, enabling the disksto bc al;- tfxched or removed when desired.

To the plate' 13 a leaf or shield iS hinged A at thc odge, and thisshieldis provided with o euings 26 which revister Wit the openings o theplate. This shield will have :my desia'cd f. olor. and may be foldedover the plate so es to study the effect of a Vdifferent ground. lnaddition to this, I provide a reversible ex.- tra shield or overlay 27,which is like the shield 25 except that it has a different color on eachside; any colors may be selected for It should be understood, also',

this that the plate 13 has Sonie color suitable for :i ga-ozuad. Inprat-lice, l provide two ofthe overlays ".22", one of which is black on,one side und white on the other; the other overlay is o r lose.

bull' on one sido and bron n on the other. [t A this device in thisrespect is similar to thel :w-

At the openinvs 15 to 1S,the

tion of the shield 4 when it is slid upon the scales 3: It ill be notedthat in this form of the invention the colors may be shown in contrastor in harmony, as in the first form described, the purpose and effect ofboth first opening.

A device of the class described having a. color scale, and a. movableshield havin transverse openings, said scale having sucii an arrangementthat when a color is exposed at one opening the harmonizing color willbe exposed at the other of seid openings.

3. A device of the class described having color scales arranged side byside, n movable shield having an opening therein ex osing the colors ofsaid seines, and a slidble 'riskct having u plurality of o enings withborders of different colors, sai( last openings being adapted to alinewith seid firsto ening to give a ground color for the expose( colors.

4. A device ofthe class described having a plurality of color scales, amovable shleld aving openings therein adapted to expose .a part of saidscales, and a movable frisket having a plurality of openings withdifferently colored edges.

In testimony whereof I have signed my neme to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

EMXUEL FREDERICK WAGNER.

Witnesses: Y

FRANK A. BATZ, EMIL J. FUHRMANN.

